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Post by uglibug on Sept 14, 2014 19:18:54 GMT
Was having "tickle time" earlier when I noticed that Stu seems to have chipped one of his incisors. It's not a huge amount, only about 1 or 2mm shorter than the other bottom tooth and he seems to be blissfully unaware that there is even a problem. Do we need to get the other bottom tooth filed so it matches or will they just eventually balance themselves out?
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Post by deguconvert on Sept 14, 2014 19:58:24 GMT
Hmmm . . . I've done both. Left the longer tooth alone, and clipped it. Either way seemed to work fine. Leaving it is less stress for him and for you.
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Post by moletteuk on Sept 15, 2014 10:51:49 GMT
I would leave it, it should only take a day or two to sort itself.
It may or may not be related but it's worth having a think about dental health and diet when something like this happens, are the teeth nice and orange? Do they eat plenty of forage?
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Post by uglibug on Sept 15, 2014 18:22:16 GMT
Their teeth seem to be a nice orange colour, but they are funny little bleeders about hay and greenery. We have started restricting the younger boys hard feed and giving them fresh greens at least twice a week to encourage them to eat more of it, but they seem perplexed at anything new added to their cage: it took them a couple of days to work out that the hay in the hay rack was edible, and they are the same with new plants, the only ones they seem to have assigned "food" status to so far is mint and dandelion.
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Post by moletteuk on Sept 16, 2014 10:14:23 GMT
Just keep trying with the plants, sometimes they do their own test procedure where they will only eat a little bit for a day or so to check for themselves it doesn't make them ill. You might find dried plants are more popular than fresh too. I agree on the awkwardness though, two of mine took this mornings hay straight to bed for bedding, I gave them a telling off because it was the £5/kg stuff!
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